{"product_id":"an-archaeology-of-lunacy-managing-madness-in-early-nineteenth-century-asylums-9781526126498","title":"An Archaeology of Lunacy: Managing Madness in Early Nineteenth-Century Asylums","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Katherine Fennelly\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Archaeology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn archaeology of lunacy\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the Georgian and early Victorian lunatic asylum from an interdisciplinary perspective, employing methods from archaeology, social geography, and history to create a holistic view of this distinctive building type. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the popular imagination, historical lunatic asylums were dark, monolithic, and homogenous - instruments for social confinement and punishment. This book aims to reassess their reputation, showing how the built environment and material worlds of lunatic asylums were distinctive and idiosyncratic, not to mention highly regional. Asylums were also progressive spaces and proving grounds for architectural experimentation, where the reformed treatment practices known as 'moral management' were trialled and refined. Their standing remains represent a unique opportunity to study a building type in active transition, both materially and ideologically - an archaeological approach can offer a materially focused examination of how the buildings worked on a daily basis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis study combines critical analysis of the architecture, material remains, and historical documentary sources for lunatic asylums in England and Ireland. Students and scholars of later historical archaeology and built heritage will find it a useful overview of this institutional site type, while historians of medicine will be interested by the focus on interior design and architecture.","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889335025815,"sku":"9781526126498","price":9457.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781526126498.webp?v=1781175843","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/an-archaeology-of-lunacy-managing-madness-in-early-nineteenth-century-asylums-9781526126498","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}